{"id":492736,"date":"2012-11-01T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=23619"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:23:08","slug":"markku-alen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/markku-alen\/","title":{"rendered":"Markku Al\u00e9n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Markku Al\u00e9n is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career, firmly establishing himself as one of the world\u2019s greatest rally drivers.<\/p>\n

Markku was World Champion in 1978, the last year of the FIA Cup, and ruled the rally world again in 1986, but only for a lousy 10 days. The title was taken away from him by FISA, the sport\u2019s world governing body, after a disgraceful display of jingoism, confusion and rancor by the Italians during the year\u2019s San Remo Rally. He won 19 World Championship rallies, including a staggering six victories in the rollercoaster 1000 Lakes, Finland\u2019s world title counter.<\/p>\n

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Although he didn\u2019t win a rally driving this 131 Abarth in 1977, Al\u00e9n did help Fiat win that year\u2019s WRC Manufacturers Championship. Photo: Pirelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tall and slim, Helsinki-born Al\u00e9n started young. At 18 he won the 1969 Finnish junior rally championship in a Renault Gordini R8. Next, he went ice racing and became champion of Finland at that in a Sunbeam 900. In 1971, Markku won 11 Finnish national rallies in a cumbersome Volvo 142.<\/p>\n

At just 21, he entered Britain\u2019s notoriously slippery ice, mud and snow RAC Rally in the unwieldy Volvo. He hustled the heavy Swedish car into 12th place overall with a potent cocktail that would serve him well throughout his career: guts, talent and will power.<\/p>\n

Ford was first to take Al\u00e9n on in 1973, when he did the RAC for them in a 1798-cc, 210 hp Escort RS 1600, finishing 3rd. The talent scouts were out in force to watch him, but the Fiat Group got him in the end. They signed Al\u00e9n to a contract that ran for more or less the rest of his rally career.<\/p>\n

First, Markku campaigned the rather outdated 210 hp Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye: he took it to 3rd in the 1974 TAP Rally of Portugal, 2nd in Michigan\u2019s 1974 Press on Regardless, won the 1975 Rally of Portugal and came 3rd in that year\u2019s Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n

The 124\u2019s successor was the legendary Fiat 131 Abarth, a boxy 16-valve, 1995-cc rally version of the Turin manufacturer\u2019s big-selling production sedan. The car would win the 1977, 1978 and 1980 World Rally Championship for Manufacturers and spur Markku Al\u00e9n on to winning the 1978 FIA Cup. Between 1975 and mid-1981, the young Flying Finn won his own country\u2019s round in the World Championship, the 1000 Lakes, no less than four times and the Portugal three times in the 131, before encroaching on Sandro Munari\u2019s territory to win the 1978 San Remo Rally in the fabled Lancia Stratos. But for 1979, 1980 and 1981 he went back to the 131 and won the 1000 Lakes again in \u201979 and \u201980, as well as the \u201981 Rally of Portugal.<\/p>\n

The sublime Stratos and down to earth 131 would be hard acts to follow, but Lancia did it with the Pininfarina-styled 037.<\/p>\n

After coming 2nd in the 037 on the 1983 Rallye Monte Carlo, Markku won the Tour de Corse in the car and followed that with a 2nd in the Acropolis, but he would have to wait until the end of the year for another victory, in the San Remo Rally. He added Tour de Corse to his tally again in 1984.<\/p>\n

In 1985, the leading World Rally Championship teams were putting the finishing touches to the most powerful cars the sport had ever seen: the Group Bs. Lancia debuted its new supercharged, turbocharged 450 hp Group B Delta S4 in the \u201985 RAC Rally, where it came 1st driven by Henri Toivonen and 2nd by Al\u00e9n.<\/p>\n

The full Group B season happened in 1986, which was also the year of its demise. The cars were just too powerful to be let loose on narrow public roads and forestry tracks.<\/p>\n

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Al\u00e9n stands proudly by his Lancia Stratos at San Remo in 1978.
Photo: Pirelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tragedy struck at the 1986 Rally of Portugal in March, when three spectators were killed as a Ford RS200 driven by local driver Joaquim Santos plunged into the crowd. The last straw was the death of two of the sport\u2019s most popular figures, Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto, when their Delta S4 inexplicably flew off a narrow Corsican road, crashed and exploded while leading the rally. Within hours, FISA\u2019s president, Jean-Marie Balestre, announced the end of Group B.<\/p>\n

Then came the San Remo disaster in October, Round 11 of the World Championship. With three more events to go, the constructors championship was headed by Peugeot with 131 points, with Lancia lying 2nd at 119. The drivers table told a similar story: Peugeot\u2019s Juha Kankkunen was 1st with 91 points and Lancia\u2019s Markku Al\u00e9n 2nd on 69.<\/p>\n

The event was a litany of spectator trouble, cancelled stages, faulty timing equipment and political in-fighting. In the end, the organizers eliminated the Peugeots from the rally for \u201ctechnical reasons.\u201d Pending the outcome of an inquiry, the winner was Markku Al\u00e9n in a Delta S4.<\/p>\n

That meant Lancia closed the gap on Peugeot in the two World Championships, but underneath it all there was unease in the Lancia camp. They knew Peugeot was determined to bring its legal guns to bear on the San Remo debacle.<\/p>\n

So the pressure was on in the next round of the world title chase, the RAC, in which the lead changed hands seven times between November 16-19. In the end, Al\u00e9n took 2nd after an uncharacteristically cautious drive, probably with the championship standings in mind.<\/p>\n

As the cars left Tacoma in Washington State on December 4 to begin America\u2019s Olympus Rally, last round of the season, all eyes were on the two Finns, Markku Al\u00e9n and Juha Kankkunen. The leading positions, with the San Remo points still intact, were: Peugeot 137, Lancia 128; Al\u00e9n 104, Kankkunen 103.<\/p>\n

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Markku explains why Lancia 037 was his favorite rally car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Predictably, the two drivers became locked into a life or death struggle from the outset. Both tried all they knew to squeeze every atom of power from their cars, balancing the roaring monsters on just the right side of disaster as they booted them over the unmade roads of Washington\u2019s forests.<\/p>\n

Al\u00e9n went into the lead on the first stage, because Kankkunen was a little too circumspect over his tire choice: but Juha took command when Markku\u2019s power steering failed. The next morning, though, Kankkunen incurred a one-minute road penalty when he had to change his car\u2019s battery\u2014and that was it: Markku took the lead and kept it for the rest of the rally.<\/p>\n

After that, the points table read: Al\u00e9n 124, Kankkunen 118.<\/p>\n

In his heart, however, Markku knew all was not well: the inconclusive San Remo affair hung heavily in the air.<\/p>\n

A few days later FISA met to sort out the Italian cockup, then delivered its verdict: cancellation of the San Remo Rally and the points that had been won in Italy. That stripped Markku of his second world title and handed it to Juha Kankkunen.<\/p>\n

Peugeot won the manufacturers title, with 137 points to Lancia\u2019s 122.<\/p>\n

Markku continued in top class rallying until 1993, and was always a potential winner. In 1987, he won three World Championship rallies in Lancia\u2019s highly successful Delta 4WD HF. He won the Portugal, the Acropolis and the 1000 Lakes again in 1987: but he could only manage 3rd in the World Championship. As it turned out, the title had slipped through his fingers forever.<\/p>\n

Al\u00e9n won the 1988 1000 Lakes and Britain\u2019s RAC in a Delta Integrale, a four-wheel-drive, 1995-cc transverse turbo that booted out at least 295 hp, and which won the whole year\u2019s 12 World Championship rallies without a defeat. The car was, however, Markku\u2019s last Lancia.<\/p>\n

Al\u00e9n spent the next three seasons rallying Subarus and Toyotas, and put in a stirring drive in a Celica Turbo 4WD to come 2nd in the 2,310-mile 1993 Safari Rally, just nine minutes behind archrival and winner, Juha Kankkunen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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